I plan to attend the NAFEMS Practical FE course in March. Does anyone know if its any good?
I'm a beginner with some experience but I really want to understand the basics of FE and not just how to use a piece of software (ie Femap Patran etc). I have a few books which have helped get me...
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Can someone explain the logic of using Von Mises for static failure (i.e. ultimate)? I thought it was only really useful for determining if yielding has occured. Once you get close to failure you're in the non-linear portion of the stress/strain curve, so is Von Mises still...
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forgive my english, regarding using principal streses for fatigue analysis.
If I have two FE cases, and suppose FEA based fatigue analysis will be caried out by cycling between these two cases.
How would principal stresses be used? Does it matter that the principal vectors...
